Metal cones; tanned, smoked moosehide; porcupine quill, red, black, ivory; vegetable fibre or cotton for center seam; silk, pale blue; commercial beige thread.

Heel seam is straight, not T. Has little gathers at the base. Seam in the cuff.Center seam covered with band of zigzag quill, gathers over toe.

There are two hide thongs attached on each side of the center zigzag seam.

The material in the Bibliothèque nationale de France was collected before 1792. Based on material and style, Autumn Epple believes they date between 1740 and 1780.

The ethnographic works from the Bibliothèque Nationale du France collection are located in the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. These ethnographic works were brought together in this collection at the time of the French Revolution, around 1792. Many of these works came from the Jardin du Roi, the collection of the French kings. In 1792, inventories were made of the possessions of aristocratic French families in Paris and the provinces and many objects were selected to be added to the Bibliothèque Nationale, which was the national collection of the new Republic. Ethnographic material from the Bibliothèque Nationale was located at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro, then the Musée de l’Homme, and is now in the Musée du quai Branly.

Unknown artist, moccasins. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1878.32.139. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 1362.

This record was created by Anne de Stecher during an RAship for Prof. Ruth Phillips.

This record will be open access on the completion of Anne de Stecher's dissertation in 2011.